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    Miss Indiana's "normal" body.

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      Here are the contestants in the first Miss America pageant, held in 1921. It's shocking how much popular views of what is a "normal" attractive woman's body type have changed.

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      Agreed, they were all gorgeous and healthy looking!!

      QFT!

      They all look healthy and fit. I don't see any "bags of bones" either.
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      Oops. Reality check.

      I don't know if they'll all agree, but I do.

      But alas. Here's some science. What a wet blanket.

      "When it comes to sexuality and mating, evolutionary psychologists say, men and women often are as different psychologically as they are physically. Scientists have long known that people typically choose mates who closely resemble themselves in terms of weight, height, intelligence and even earlobe length. But a survey of more than 10,000 people in 37 cultures on six continents, conducted by University of Michigan psychologist David Buss, reveals that men consistently value physical attractiveness and youth in a mate more than women do; women. equally as consistently are more concerned than men with a prospective mate’s ambition, status and resources. If such preferences were merely arbitrary products of culture, says Buss, one might expect to find at least one society somewhere where men’s and women’s mating preferences were reversed; the fact that attitudes are uniform across cultures suggests they are a fundamental part of human psychology."

      The above is from an article entitled Your Cave or Mine? By William F. Allman (San Francisco Chronicle THIS WORLD section, July 25, 1993, p. 8-10)

      Maybe in '93. Age doesn't seem to be as big an issue in 2014.
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      not sure what the problem is here..

      I am 5'7" and 119lbs...she looks quite about that too. She is a little taller than me and I am a little heavier up top...

      119lb looks right. And she looks gorgeous.
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      WTF is a normal body??
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      I don't get it. She looks extremely thin.
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      I don't get it. She looks extremely thin.

      She is very thin.
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      Link: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-miss-indiana-mekayla-diehl-weight-20140610-story.html

      In a nutshell, Mekayla Diehl didn't win, but she's getting a lot of attention because she's not exactly your typical super-thin Miss USA contestant.

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      Well, I think that's great that they had a girl up there that isn't a "bag of bones" and I think she looks great, but the thing that got me was the article's claim that Mekayla has a BMI of 18, making her far from "normal" or "average." As the article says, she's 5'8", meaning that she'd have to be about 119 lbs to have a BMI of 18. They say she wears a size 4, which I believe because my body doesn't look all that different from hers and I wear a size 4 (sometimes), but she's definitely not 119 lbs.

      Thoughts?

      Hmmmm...think I can *kitten* to this.






      Is this even a question? She's hot. The end.
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      When I said "bag if bones," I was referencing the article that none of you read, clearly. That's why it was in quotes. Get over it.

      I also think most of you missed the point of my post. I wasn't saying anything negative about her or the other girls. It was about the claim that she has a BMI of 18, which she clearly does not. It seems odd that they'd basically call her underweight while trying to push positive body image - might as well tell girls that they aren't attractive until they have a BMI below 18.
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      This is what normal looks like for my home state? *puts ice cream bowl down and grabs gym bag*

      10/10 WB
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      Yup, as suspected, they all look "normal" to me.

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      I wouldn't describe any of those women as "a bag of bones"
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      LOL I saw it. you win.
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      LOL I saw it. you win.

      At first it said no swiping, and showed a thief picture. Now I can see it. This confirms my suspicions...Jof is magic.
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      Yes she is gorgeous. No she isn't 5'8" and 118 lb. No she isn't normal. That chick has way more muscle than the average American I say. I'm guessing she's very into fitness.
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      I'll take that body over mine any day. Proud that she represented my state.
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      It seems that far too often on here that women are either criticized as too skinny or too fat. I don't get it. She's lovely. Why can't that be all that's said?

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      They are all gorgeous of course and it's pretty rude to call anyone a bag of bones, even if they are very thin, that's their business and it doesn't mean they are not beautiful. Wouldn't if be much more fun/interesting if there were a greater greater diversity in pageants? Where my short girls at? Where my chubby girls at? Where my Asian girls at? Where my girls w/ wheels? Ya know? Just my humble 2 cents. I haven't watched them since I was a kid because I feel they do not seem to be very inclusive, and monotony is just plain boring to me. :)
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      She is stunning
      She is not 118 lbs and that's ok
      She looks really wonderful but they all do

      I don't a single
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      forget the body she has a few curves but she looks good...but she has the most stunning face.
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      Sit back and listen to this crazy, radical plan of mine.

      How about we start honoring women for something besides looking attractive to men?

      What if we started holding pageants that rewarded real achievement? What's her talent? She's a chemist, and one of the best in the country. So no, she never really took the time to learn baton twirling.

      What if there was no bikini competition? Because you had a group of smart women with self-respect who wanted no part of being judged solely for their looks, and paraded out like sides of beef.

      What if we treated women...like people?



      (and you thought you were the wet blanket)

      While I get what you're saying, and agree to a degree, chemists (and those in other scholarly pursuits), both male and female are awarded for achievement. (Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, etc.) And there is a certain subset that presumably enjoys twirling batons, and looking "pageanty" who would like to be recognized for it.

      I think it's more important to let all people, men, women, male, female, whoever, be who they are, and if they do what they do well, whatever it may be, give em a pat on the back, or a tiara, as it were.
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      LOL I saw it. you win.

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      Link: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-miss-indiana-mekayla-diehl-weight-20140610-story.html

      In a nutshell, Mekayla Diehl didn't win, but she's getting a lot of attention because she's not exactly your typical super-thin Miss USA contestant.

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      Well, I think that's great that they had a girl up there that isn't a "bag of bones" and I think she looks great, but the thing that got me was the article's claim that Mekayla has a BMI of 18, making her far from "normal" or "average." As the article says, she's 5'8", meaning that she'd have to be about 119 lbs to have a BMI of 18. They say she wears a size 4, which I believe because my body doesn't look all that different from hers and I wear a size 4 (sometimes), but she's definitely not 119 lbs.

      Thoughts?
      It's nice to see that the Miss USA competition relaxed their standards so much that someone as bulky as she is can enter.
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